Farage on the Ukraine war

Western Daily Press, 26 June 2024

I’m no great fan of the Reform Party leader Nigel Farage – though I recognise that his single-handed wrenching of this country out of the European Union globalist adventure was an extraordinary achievement from his standpoint.

But Farage has scored a ‘palpable hit’ for many people with his argument that EU and NATO expansionism is substantially responsible for provoking Russia into its defensive ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine.

We all know what happened when the USSR threatened to house nuclear missiles on the USA’s doorstep, in Cuba, in October 1962. In this so-called Cuban Missile Crisis, all-out war was threatened by President Kennedy unless the USSR stood down – which, sensibly, they did. The parallels with hostile NATO expansion surrounding Russia are regrettably very close.

Fascinatingly, immediately after this story broke on BBC Radio 5 Live on Stephen Nolan’s programme, a stream of callers rang in in support of Farage’s counter-narrative statement – and of course the indistinguishable Lab/Con uni-party response was one of choreographed lockstep outrage. There’s not a cigarette paper between the disgraceful war-mongering of Labour and the Conservatives.

What this indicates is that despite all the incessant anti-Russian propaganda to which the British people have been subjected over the past year or so, many intelligent people are able to see through the Western propaganda, and so take a much more balanced, nuanced view of the Ukraine conflict and the machinations of the Western Military Industrial Complex, which at the very least rejoices in such wars, if not actually provoking them.

Yours etc.

Dr Richard House

Stroud, Gloucestershire

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